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Android Debug Bridge, a CLI for connecting to Android devices: https://developer.android.com/tools/adb

> Why even have a status page if it is not going to be accurate in real time?

The funny thing is reddit's status page used to have real-time graphs of things like error rate, comment backlog, visits, etc. Not with any numbers on the Y-axis, so you could only see relative changes, really, but they were still helpful to see changes before humans got around to updating the status page.

There's a ctrl+open shortcut, if I remember correctly, which may be what the parent comment is referring to.

They're not linking to a change in wording? The "Does Firefox sell your personal data?" question was deleted entirely. Unless the parent comment or link was edited at some point, maybe.

The blog post talks about DNS glue records, but are they really relevant to the issue if the domain is suspended? A suspended domain is a suspended domain, regardless of whether it's using vanity nameservers.

I keep the module index[0] in my bookmarks bar and that's also been pretty easy to search and read.

[0] https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/index_mo...

There have also been (possibly AI-generated) comments that are simply rephrasing prior comments or even comments on the same post and piggybacking onto an already upvoted comment. It's not as common as the straight copy and paste comments but it is obvious by the same limited user history and rephrased comments that don't quite make sense in context.

A small typo I noticed - "Case-sensitive: 53^5 = 62,259,690,411,360" should be to the eighth power, not the fifth.

> What is Reddit's involvement other than their website being used for this communication?

I think that's it, which is why reddit is referred to as non-party in the motion.

It's a domain registered yesterday and an account registered an hour ago expressly to post the website, so the barrier to entry isn't particularly high.

It's a marketing blog for a service that relies on storing files locally, so that sounds about right. The HN username also matches the blog's author, so it does feel like they're posting exclusively for self-promotion.

Assistive Access is new in iOS 17 and might also be helpful for simplifying the UI: https://support.apple.com/guide/assistive-access-iphone/set-...

Flexential PDX02, according to the outages mailing list[0].

[0] https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/outages/2023-November/0149...

In the distant past, I self-hosted Tiny Tiny RSS, accessed it from a web browser and an Android phone, and liked it. I didn't have any problems with it but just never got around to setting it up again when I migrated VMs.

Now, I've been using NewsBlur (mostly on iOS, rarely on desktop) ever since Google Reader shut down. I don't have too many subscriptions but a couple folders for online comic strips, status pages or blogs of things I pay for (email service provider, etc.), and some software projects (Kubernetes, etc.).

Reminds me of Mac-assed Mac apps[1]:

> Mac apps that are unapologetically _Mac_ apps. They’re platform-specific and they’re not trying to wow us with all their custom not-Mac-like UI (which often isn’t very accessible).

I wonder if there's a directory of such applications somewhere, actually.

[1] https://inessential.com/2020/03/19/proxyman

More discussion from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37635939

It's searching titles, not lyrics.

I've been wanting to spend more time trying out Strongbox[1], personally. It's only available for Apple (macOS, iOS, and iPadOS) devices, which rules out the 1% of the time I use an oddball Linux or Windows desktop, but it's a bit more reminiscent of old 1Password UIs with less of the dismissive attitude that I've gotten from 1Password's support team over the last couple years.

[1] https://strongboxsafe.com/

And another thread from a couple hours ago that links directly to Evernote's blog: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36650656

> It's not okay to have to jailbreak the thing to make it usable.

I guess we'll have to tell millions of users that their iPhones are all unusable, then. Imagine the shock!

I'm not sure if this is the "apt page" they're referring to, but there's https://packages.ubuntu.com/ for Ubuntu. It's helpful for searching package versions across releases, especially if I don't have an Ubuntu server handy. Other distributions have similar pages too, I believe.

> worrying signs have been growing there as well

Care to elaborate?

I think, in general, you can always file a chargeback if you're prepared for the possibility of losing access to your account and data.

It's going to be even more regular, average, and safe when they block NSFW subreddits in the API.

Semi-frequently, I see outages that go unreported on the status page. They used to have error rate and backlog depth graphs on their status page too so it was obvious (in a good, transparent way) when they were having issues even if a human hadn't (yet) updated the status page, but those graphs were removed.

The two bugs were also closed as duplicates of each other, which feels a little sloppy.

FastScripts[1] might be worth a look. I've been meaning to check it out myself though so I can't offer any personal experience with it.

[1] https://redsweater.com/fastscripts/

On mobile, at least, Dropbox inserts their own interstitial page to download the app instead of immediately displaying the file, which may be what the parent comment is referring to. At a quick glance it might look like a login wall since you're obviously expecting to see an image instead.

Hashtags aren't like user accounts, no - they're strings that are part of a tweet. In theory, a separate data structure shouldn't be needed since you can just search the full text of tweets, but in practice, I don't know how that scales for the number of all-time tweets.

> Check in a few days to see if I'm right

Or, you know, to see if they change it in response to the article or the discussion here.